Get on with the GST – The Hindu (July 22, 2016)
Another session of Parliament has begun with the BJP-led government expressing its determination to ensure the adoption of the Constitution amendment bill to usher in the long-delayed Goods and Services Tax. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Word List:
- Get on with (phrasal verb) – continue, proceed, go ahead, carry on, push on.
- Usher in (phrasal verb) – herald, mark the start of, announce; initiate, introduce, put in place.
- Wrest (verb) – wrench, snatch, seize, grab, take by force.
- Address (verb) – give a talk to, make a speech to, give an oration to.
- Eve (noun) – the period of time just before an event, the day/evening before a special day.
- Primacy (noun) – greater importance, priority, first place, supremacy.
- Bipartisan (adjective) – involving cooperation between two (opposite & big) political parties.
- Reiterate (verb) – repeat, say again, restate.
- Credentials (noun) – qualifications, achievements, qualities.
- Champion (verb) – promote, support, plead for, advocate.
- Obstructionism (noun) – an act of stopping/delaying something purposefully, particularly the political/legal plan of actions.
- Conciliatory (adjective) – propitiatory, appeasing, pacifying, peacemaking.
- Hammer out (phrasal verb) – bring about, work out, agree on, sort out, negotiate.
- Consensus (noun) – agreement, concord, concurrence; general/common opinion/view.
- See something through (phrase) – bring to completion/a finish, continue to the end.
- Sticking point (noun) – a barrier at the end of the progressing discussions.
- Sought – past tense of seek (verb) – ask for, request, solicit, appeal for.
- Bone of contention (phrase) – non-stop disagreement on an issue.
- Explicit (adjective) – clear, direct; precise, exact.
- Subsume (verb) – include, absorb, cover, encompass.
- Incentivise (verb) – encourage, motivate.
- Exchequer (noun) – national treasury.
- Ward off (phrasal verb) – prevent, avert, oppose, resist; deflect, parry, fend off.
- Incipient (adjective) – developing, growing, emerging; nascent, budding, aborning.
- Sagacity (noun) – wisdom, (deep) insight, intelligence, understanding.
- Elusive (adjective) – hard/difficult to catch/find, difficult to define/understand/remember/slippery, evasive, fugitive.
Note:
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